Straight is Strait + ugh!
(almost)
- which sums up the situation
Perhaps the BBC should look at their own app which I find to be the gloomiest of all
liquefied glass? I thought liquefied glass would be a bit … hot?
I had assumed it would be ground glass powder?
This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30
Well I never knew that! I used to meet up with family there a few times in the early 2000's
I wondered why we didn’t know it before
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I wish I’d thought of that name for my cat
Every time a dad has a paper bag. It’s the law.
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The distribution of letters in English words.
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bushey house, bushey beard.
Made for each other
A bit about the new #AdaLovelace statue in our local community bulletin.
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (the Justice's father). The quote is from an 1871 commencement speech at a medical college. In the relevant passage, Holmes is pointing to the benefit of experience for physicians.
HOW a Duck Broke EVERY Map.
Out now on Youtube....
A metaphysical conundrum for a Sunday night. Can I see through the gates? Or have the gaps in the gate been covered over so I can’t see what’s behind?
How to look unimpressed when your partner is showing off
Just completed the DCMC BBC charter review survey. It's not exactly quick work but it is a labour of love and I would encourage others to give it a go before the closing date on Tuesday. www.gov.uk/government/c...
That’s a lot of wheels for a ‘bike’
It's 5 years ago this month that Steven Spurrier die so wrote a thing about one of the great gents of the wine world henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/steven-spu...
Every house needs a secret door that leads to a secret room, but well, there are secret rooms and then there are...
A bronze statuette of a Hindu saint, acquired by the Ashmolean in 1967, has been returned to a temple in Tamil Nadu. The Ashmolean had been alerted to doubts around its provenance in 2019 and voluntarily approached Indian authorities for an investigation.
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I’m going to guess WC
I’m surprised they were giving that out in 1974! There was a pre-war copy in my grandparents’ house and I always found it disturbing and unsuitable for children like myself. Which didn’t stop me reading it, though! All part of my impression that people in the past were weird
The Colours of Spring
‘Come gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallor from a promise that's nature's gift’
Canada’s national motto: “Bordering on the ridiculous” ?
The Colours of Spring
‘Come gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallor from a promise that's nature's gift’
The giants are in conversation.
A mysterious composition I found today in a tree in the woods. Nature copying Andy Goldsworthy
